Scholarly Video Publishing to
Increase Productivity and
Standardization in Life Sciences
Moshe Pritsker, Ph.D.
CEO, Editor-in-Chief, co-founder, JoVE
• Why we need academic video journals
• How to build a viable video journal
• Acceptance in the scientific community –
current status
Scientific Article – same from 1665
First Issue of Philosophical Transactions
of the Royal Society
Typical Scientific Article or
Why Scientists Suffer
Position the metaphase spindle at 3 o’clock and hold
it with holding pipette. Apply piezo pulses to penetrate
the zona pellucida. Touch the metaphase plate with
the enucleation pipette. Aspirate the spindle and
withdraw the pipette.
What is this about???!!!
1 picture vs. 1,000 words or
why we need to publish in video
Text article
Position the metaphase spindle
at 3 o’clock and hold it with
holding pipette. Apply piezo
pulses to penetrate the zona
pellucida. Touch the metaphase
plate with the enucleation pipette.
Aspirate the spindle and
withdraw the pipette.
Real life
Solution: Visualized Description of
Experimental Methods
Text doesn’t work?
Show it in video!
Structure of scientific video-articles
1. Animated Abstract
2. Introduction of scientists
3. Experimental procedure
4. Discussion of results
New Article = Video + Text
Why scientists publish in JoVE
- Journal, Not Database
- Indexed in PubMed and Medline
- Prestigous Editorial Board
- Make your research reproducible
- Show what you know to do to your colleagues
- Spend less time on training
- Retain technology in your lab when experts leave
JoVE - Current Status
- Published 40 montly issues, >650 video-articles
- 50 video-articles per month are produced across the world
- Areas covered: Neuroscience, Immunology, Developmental Biology, Cell Biology,
Biochemistry, Bioengineering, Plant Biology, Psychology, Medicine and others
- First-and-only video journal accepted for indexing in PubMed and Medline
- Most contributions from leading research universities in US and abroad: Harvard,
MIT, Yale, NIH, Oxford, Cambridge, Max Planck, Weizmann Institute....
- Partnerships with traditional publishers: Science (AAAS), Current Protocols (Wiley),
Springer Protocols (Springer) and Annual Reviews
- Numerous articles in general and scientific press, TV and radio interviews (CNN,
Nature, Science, WIRED, Voice of America, El Tiempo, ....)
Starting from Prestigious Institutions
Who publishes what in JoVE?
- Group of Eric Lander (MIT, Broad Instittue) - genomics:
Hi-C: A Method to Study the Three-dimensional Architecture of Genomes
- Group of Rudolf Jaenisch (MIT) – stem cells:
Generating iPS Cells from MEFS through Forced Expression of Sox-2, Oct-4, c-Myc,
and Klf4
- Group of Arturo Alvarez-Buylla (UCSF) – neural development:
The Subventricular Zone En-face: Wholemount Staining and Ependymal Flow
- Group of John Cooke (Stanford) – animal model of disease:
Murine Model of Hindlimb Ischemia
- Group of John Carlson (Yale) – behavior:
Proboscis Extension Response (PER) Assay in Drosophila
Usage
2007
2008
2009
2007
2008
2009
• 80,000 visitors per months
• 210,000 downloads (3 pageloads per each visitor)
Who watches JoVE
Per video
• 15,000 visitors / year
• 80% are from academia
Top viewing countries include
United States
Western European countries
China
Canada
Japan
India
Institutions subscribed - 2010
•
>150 libraries subscribed:
• Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology – MIT,
Brandeis University, Brown University, Cold Spring Harbor
Laboratory – CSHL, Cornell University, Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center, George Mason University, Kent State
University, Max-Planck-Institute for Medical Research (Germany),
Mount Sinai School of Medicine – MSSM, National Institute of
Health – NIH, National Taiwan University (Taiwan), Northeastern
University of Illinois, Princeton University, Purdue University,
Rockefeller University, Salk Institute, UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA,
University of Verona (Italy), University of Hong Kong (Hong
Kong), University of Iowa, University of Miami, University of New
South Wales (Australia), University of Southern California – USC,
University of Waterloo (Canada), University of Zurich
(Switzerland), Vanderbilt University, Weizmann Institute of
Science (Israel), Wellesley College, Yale University, Yonsei
University (Korea),…
Testimonials
Super idea. Excellent movie. Best wishes with your novel publishing
concept.
Thomas D. Pollard, PhD
Professor, Yale University
I just viewed an excellent little article on your site, and I would like to
include it in the reference materials for my course.
Moses Goddard, MD
Associate Professor of Surgery, Brown University
It is a great way of sharing the kinds of details that make all the
difference but are very hard to put into a printed report.
Helmut Hirsch, PhD, Distinguished Teaching Professor, University at Albany
Thank you for creating and developing such an astounding resource
for scientists! This is truly going to rapidly advance progress in all
fields of research and the potential applications are endless.
Lalitha Chandrasekher, Candidate for PhD Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown Univ.
We film your video for you
Video production process
Text
Protocol
Editing
Filming (5h)
Published
Videographer Network to Cover All
Universities
Covers USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland,
Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Japan and Australia
- Cost-effective platform for large-scale production of scientific videos from all
over the world
Film at Your Lab
I just wanted to say thank you for all of your professionalism and
hard work with our team today. You and the team you
assembled did a great job with the whole process (many
faculty who saw us have commented positively) and you were
able to still tolerate my less than stellar acting. Thanks again and I
look forward to working with you all in the future.
Glenn
Glenn Raup PhD, RN, NE-BC
Assistant Professor
Harris College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Texas Christian University
JoVE – what‘s next?
JoVE Medicine
JoVE Neuroscience
JoVE Immunology
….
Your choice – what do you want for your users?
ROI for institutions
Video journal: effective resource on how to do experiements
Increase efficiency of learning for scientists and students
Save money on research and education
How much money saved?
1 post-doc: salary $50K per year, 6 month of work saved = $25K saved
$25K x 10 = $250K
JoVE Team
Testimonial
I recently had the opportunity to publish in the Journal of Visualized
Experiments (JoVE), the online video journal for biological sciences. I came
across JOVE when I was trying to understand the methodology of chromatin
immunopreciptation assays. The text is accompanied by video
demonstrations which makes the methodology of the experiments much
more clear.
Thus, JOVE is a very unique and useful resource for researchers, graduate
students, postdocs and undergraduates in science. This novel
visualization approach will improve reproducibility of experimental
studies, and increase the efficiency of research and education in the
biological sciences.
Dr. John Cooke
Professor of Medicine, Associate Director, Stanford Cardiovascular Institute.